"If we go on explaining we shall cease……" — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another."
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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36 Quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a…
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Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
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In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
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It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
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War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
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In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a…
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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or…
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool,…
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More Cease Quotes
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring,…
— David Brainerd
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and…
— Eileen Caddy
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
— Albert Camus
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these…
— Donald Cargill
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
— Thomas Carlyle
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on…
— Oswald Chambers
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